@George RedCalifornia is generally more cumbersome than other states when it comes to taxes and filings.

You want to lift something up but not pay someone else to do it first. 

I can quickly create bank accounts for each property, the categories for tagging your transactions align perfectly with your Schedule E for taxes and I can do all of my tenant related functions like tenant vetting, lease creation and collecting deposits and rents.

He has also mentioned that his job has been paying him late here and there.

Should I pay her more $ for longer stays like this or just pay her the same fee? 

I went to the county assesor and found out the taxes are current and no back taxes are owed.

In my experience lenders much prefer to see the income on your tax returns then from what is on a lease.2.

I can use those as the legitimate reason to deny the application knowing that my real concern is their inability to pay the rent due to maternity leave.

Maximum 10 total properties (not 10 financed properties like fannie/freddie 1-4 unit properties, so even if the properties are free and clear it counts against this 10 "properties," whether there is debt/liens against them or not)You can use 1 year tax returns for self employment and 1 year tax returns for rental property income calculations as well which is huge for BP folks since most of us are rental property investors and self employed/S-corp/schedule C personal tax returns@Matthew Kwan @Carlos Valencia @Joe Homs

You can look at a deposit insurance that the tenants pay to offset repairs and fights over their deposits.